Irish ride photos

There’s a nice photo essay of Dublin Lord Mayor Oisín Quinn’s ride with San Jose Bike Party in the Merc-News today.

More bicycle stuff below the photo of Pyongyang style bicycle transportation, where North Korean state media announced Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un won 100% of the vote in his election to the Supreme People’s Assembly in a seething atmosphere of electoral delight and happiness.

Some states allow cyclists (of both the pedal powered and motorized variety) to run red lights if the light doesn’t turn green for “light duty vehicles.” In spite of a constant stream of Internet misinformation to the contrary, California is not one of those states, and it’s not hard to find tales from motorcycle riders who are ticketed in California for running a perpetual red light. This motorcycle forum owner is on a mission to fix that situation for California two-wheelers. Via whoever tweets from People Power Santa Cruz.

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• In 1994 I went on an environmental fundraising bike ride in Dublin, along with the then-Lord Mayor who was on an old 10-speed (a little battered but perfectly serviceable — steel is real). Along the way, some of the lads who’d organized the ride talked about taking up a collection to get the Lord Mayor a new bike.

I was a little taken aback by this. I’d seen U.S. mayoralty riding on Bike-to-Work Day, and an old 10-speed indicated that they were there for a photo op. It turns out that this guy, John Gormley, was the real deal: as with many European Green leaders, his bike what he used it to get around.